CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system. CPU-Z does not need to be installed. Just unzip the files in a directory and run the .exe. In order to remove the program, just delete the files. The program does not copy any file in any directory, neither writes in the registry.

Fresh Diagnose is an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, hard disk performance, video system information, motherboards information, and more! Key features of Fresh Diagnose: System Information: Scanning your system and give a complete report about your computer's hardware and software, for examples: motherboards information, video system information, PCI/AGP buses information, peripheral (keyboard, mouse, printer, etc.) information, network information. System Benchmarks: Testing your system performance, such as CPU, hard disk, CD/DVD ROM, and compare it with other systems. Use this software to learn more about your computer and its components, detect/diagnose any problems in your computer, and increase your computer's performance. Requires free email registration.

Fresh UI is the fresh solution for configuring and optimizing Windows. Loaded with hundreds of useful hidden settings, this software covers the customizing and optimizing technique that you'll be glad to know: Customizing Windows User Interface, Optimizing system settings, Optimizing hardware settings, Customizing Windows application settings, and Control user environment with policies. This software is freeware, you only need to enter a registration number if you want to use it for more than 11 days. Registration code can be obtained for FREE from the developer website.

ATI Tray Tools is a free utility that runs in the system tray and provides easy right-click access to all of your ATI video card's crucial settings. You can change anisotropic filtering + antialiasing levels in Direct3D and OpenGL, adjust image quality, turn on/off special driver features, or simply just fool around with clock settings (core and memory speeds). It uses minimal system resources and isn't intrusive. Software highlights: Support for ATI Control Center; Support for TV Out and displays with profiles; Options to change Theater mode together with TV Out; Overclocking with templates including FAN Control; Automatic Overclocking when application required 3D mode; Temperature monitoring; Artifact Tester with ability to find maximum stable clocks for GPU and Memory; Game profiles with desktop shortcut creation, and much more...

ATI Tray Tools 1.0:
Support for ATI Control Center
Support for TV Out and displays with profiles
Options to change Theater mode together with TV Out
Overclocking with templates including FAN Control
Automatic Overclocking when application required 3D mode
Temperature monitoring
Artifact Tester with ability to find maximum stable clocks for GPU and Memory.
Game profiles with desktop shortcut creation.
Direct3D settings with templates, GUI form and tray popup menu
OpenGL settings with templates, GUI form and tray popup menu
Hardware low level color correction
Hardware tweaks. Setting PCI latency timer
Radeon Information Show information about memory type, active rendering pipe lines and more
System wide Hot Keys. (Load profiles any profiles/work with colors/run any application)
Refresh Lock system with ability to set separate refresh rates for each resolution.
Tweak for overriding Pixel and Vertex Shaders
Speed improvement tweaks for Anisotropic/Trilinear Filtering. Support for Catalyst A.I.
Support for system options, VPU Recover, DMA Copy and so on
Support Display Rotation.
Support for MMC applications
Support for HYDRAVISION applications
Monitoring Graphs. (GPU/Env temperature. GPU/Mem speed, Main CPU Usage).
Unique OnScreen Display module with ability to show information about speed and temperature. Support Plugins API.
A lot of useful things. Like Save/Restore Desktop icon positions and more
Audio Recorder
Screenshots system
Powerful Plug-Ins support. (API for VC++/Delphi included)
PCI Register Set. Allow to program any registers in any PCI device at start up time. For advanced users only!
Source code for plugins as examples.
Shared memory allow other application to retrieve information about clocks, temperatures and general 3D settings.

Afterburner is an incredible handy overclock utility for MSI graphics cards, it is powered by Guru3d's Rivatuner engine, but this software comes with a few extra's. AfterBurner will support both ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards, Voltage regulation on the GPU, overclocking on core, shader and memory domains, GPU load levels (ATI), fan speed adjustment, device information, and a really wicked graphical (configurable) monitor. So with combined forces MSI will bring you their new AfterBurner overclock software. AfterBurner, as in giving that airplane an extra boost of power. The end-result (we feel) is a great looking user-friendly overclocking experience, with on-the-fly advanced user options .. including something I know many of you will like, VRM voltage control.

RivaTuner is a complete powerful tweaking environment, providing you everything you may need to tune NVIDIA GPU based display adapters. The widest driver-level Direct3D / OpenGL and system tuning options, flexible profiling system allowing to make custom settings on per-application basis, both driver-level and low-level hardware access modes, unique diagnostic and realtime hardware monitoring features and exclusive power user oriented tools like built-in registry editor and patch script engine make RivaTuner's feature set absolutely unmatched.

Minor bugfixes:
Fixed bug in hardware monitoring module causing hardware monitoring based scheduled tasks to be ignored due to improper initialization on RivaTuner startup.
Fixed erroneous 100MHz memory clock reading on G9x GPU series based display adapters caused by bug in memory clock frequency generator source clock detection code.
File system redirection is no longer disabled when executing a patch script under 64-bit OS to prevent the issues with missing file system browser dialog when pressing the "Continue" button.
Heights of sticky graphs in the group are now updated properly when manually editing fixed graph height settings in the properties of any graph of the group.
Fixed bug into startup daemon routine of RivaTunerStatisticsServer and D3DOverrider utilities causing these tools to be started and reside in memory without displaying tray icon under certain conditions.

What's new:
Added database for ForceWare 182.06.
Added Catalyst 9.2 drivers family detection.
Updated PCI DeviceID database for ATI display adapters.
Improved Logitech G15 keyboard LCD support in hardware monitoring module:
RivaTuner no longer maps OSD text to Logitech keyboard LCD, now there is separate "Show in LCD" option in the data source properties window allowing you to define independent output configurations for OSD and LCD. Previously available power user oriented MapOSDToLCD regitry entry is no longer in use.
Previously available power user oriented LCD font size adjustment option is now also available in the data source properties.
New dynamic LCD re-connection mode ensures proper LCD output when LCD software is being restarted dynamically.
Added heuristic on-die fan PWM controller detection for G92 based display adapters to provide proper low-level fan control and reference fan duty cycle monitoring for both reference desing and alternate display adapters using the fan connected to alternate on-die PWM controller (e.g. Palit GeForce 9800GT series).
Improved detection algorithms for core and memory clock frequency generators switching to PCIE bus clock on NV40 and newer NVIDIA graphics processors. The algorithms are still experimental, so both core and memory clock frequency generator bypassing detection can be forcibly disabled via EnableNVPLLBypassingDetection and EnableMPLLBypassingDetection registry entries.
Updated RivaTunerStatisticsServer v3.1.1 bundled utility. This version is a maintenance release, it doesn't contain new features besides the fix mentioned above.
Updated D3DOverrider v2.0.1 bundled utility. This version is a maintenance release, it doesn't contain new features besides the fix mentioned above.

PC WIZARD 2005 is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It's able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. This tool is periodically updated (usually once per month) in order to provide most accurate results. PC WIZARD 2005 is also an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, Cache performance, RAM performance, Hard Disk performance, CD/DVD-ROM performance, Removable/FLASH Media performance, Video performance, MP3 compression performance. PC Wizard 2005 is updated monthly with new technologies and standards. That means the utility can identify most PC system components. It also means the program supports the vast majority of CPUs, including AMD as far back as Am386DX; Intel as far back as i386DX; and most Cyrix and VIA chips, as well as Transmeta processors and IDT Winchips and motherboards. All in all, PC Wizard 2005 does a terrific job of interrogating most PC systems to tease out and report on their contents. This makes it wonderfully handy for system builders and maintainers to have around.

XP-AntiSpy is a small utility to quickly disable some built-in update and authentication features in WindowsXP that may rise security or privacy concerns in some people. For example, there is a service running in the background which is called Automatic Updates... that may sound useful to most people, but suspicious to others. You can disable all these features manually by going through your configuration, find the settings for each etc. However with XP-AntiSpy there is no need to do this, since it will show you all of them at once and let you choose which ones to disable. Not only will it save you a lot of time disabling them - it will also allow you to quickly re-enable them if you change your mind.

CrystalCPUID is a CPU identification utility, which shows quite comprehensive information about your CPU, memory and BIOS. All the data can be saved in a report file (text or graphic formats). Moreover, CrystalCPUID lets you change Athlon 64's, Athlon XP, and also some VIA processors', multiplier directly under Windows. CrystalCPUID support AMD64/EM64T.

Small tool which disables the default threats of a Windows XP installation. Besides disabling Windows and some of its components to communicate with Microsoft servers, xpy improves privacy settings and your system's security. Though xpy is smaller than 60 kilobytes, it can close serious threats (i.e. DCOM) on long distance, where large service-packs can only protect you until a new security hole has been found. Make sure you carefully choose the settings you want to apply, to avoid problems. If you experience trouble, refer to the Frequently Asked Questions or report a bug on SourceForge.

TrueSpeed will calculate the actual speed (frequency) of the microprocessor (CPU) in your computer. The speed of the CPU is rated by how many cycles it runs per second. This speed is measured in Hertz (Hz). 1 Hz is one cycle per second. A Pentium III computer, for example, with a CPU rating of 500 MHz has a speed of 500 million cycles per second. Actual CPU frequency is not the same frequency which is reported by CPU manufactures. The reported frequency is the clock frequency for which CPU is designed. The actual frequency, on the other hand, is the frequency at which the processor works under particular hardware and software configurations on a particular computer. Reported frequency you can get directly from a CPU vendor (Intel, AMD, etc.), but the actual can only be measured by running special tests designed to calculate the real speed of a CPU. The TrueSpeed utility will run a frequency calculation algorithm (speed test) to determine at what internal speed the processor is actually running. To install unzip zip file to any folder on your hard drive. To uninstall delete unzipped during install files and that is it. This utility does not create any temporary files or registry entries.

WinAudit is a software program that audits Windows based personal computers. The audit report contains details on hardware, software, licensing, security information, resource usage, network settings etc. The report is displayed as a web page, which can be saved in a number of standard formats like text, pdf, html. You can e-mail it to your technical support or even post the audit to a database for archiving. When used in conjunction with its command line functionality, you can automate inventory administration at the network level. WinAudit is designed to produce a comprehensive audit with one click of a button, thereby ensuring both novice and experienced users get results in the minimum possible time. The program's small size means it can be run from a floppy diskette or sent as an e-mail attachment. With WinAudit, you can audit a Windows computer with virtually no effort in just a few seconds. WinAudit is 'ready to run'. It has been designed so that you do not need to go through a setup procedure. This program does not install files onto the computer nor modify the system registry. WinAudit is a well-behaved auditing program in the sense that it attempts not alter the computer it is examining.

DotNET Version Checker will tell you whether you have the required components to run Microsoft .NET (dotNet) applications. It checks the version of MDAC (data access components), Internet Explorer and the .NET runtime and servicepacks installed on your machine, and will prompt you with download locations of the latest versions. If you've ever wanted a quick way to find out which versions and service packs of the .NET runtime are installed on a machine, or if you're trying to resolve a 'missing mscoree.dll' error, then DotNET Version Checker is for you. VersionCheck itself does not depend on the .NET runtime. No Install Required.

DriverManager is a tool designed to allow System Administrators, Power Users and Driver Developers an easy means to view, modify or remove drivers and their information on Windows NT 4, Windows 2000 and Windows XP platforms. DriverManager requires no real installation. Simply unzip the executable from the zip file and run it. Note that there are two executables – DriverManagerNT4.exe and DriverManager2K-XP.exe. One executable is specifically for Windows NT 4 while the other is for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It is up to the user to understand the ramifications of their actions when using DriverManager. Modifying or removing a driver may lead to a machine being unable to boot or run properly.

ATITool is an overclocking utility designed for ATI video cards. Design target is to write a light-weight application for the enthusiast - so no questionable registry tweaks. Main Features: No limits overclocking; Finding maximum core and memory overclock by rendering into a Direct3D window and scanning the output for visual artifacts; Temperature monitoring and fan speed control (on supported cards); Removal of Catalyst overclocking lock for 9000/9200/9550/9600 series; Artifact scanning mode for non-ATI cards - use together with a 3rd party overclocking utility; Loading a predefined clock profile on Application/Windows startup; Hotkeys that can be used any time to load clocks from a profile; 3D application detection (Direct3D 8, Direct3D 9, OpenGL) to overclock your video card only when required; Gamma control.

GCPUID is a CPU identification utility, which shows common information about you CPU, cache and memory. GCPUID also supports motherboard temperature monitoring by means of Motherboard Monitor 5. The biggest change is that GCPUID is now completely made in Visual C++, which means that there is no more need for large run time files like with Visual Basic version and no installation required. There are numerous updates to the CPU support list: It supports all latest CPUs, including the latest A64 X2s and Pentium D and Pentium XE. GCPUID now has a PCI Device list directly in the program so you can see what hardware is installed in your machine, it finally shows the chipset as well (under System).

7-max increases the performance of some applications up to 10-20%. Memory manager in Windows system is not too effective. 7-max contains its own memory manager. You can run any application, so that application will use effective memory manager. 7-max can speed up applications that use big amount of memory. In tests, it gives about 10% speed improvements on modern file compression programs like 7-Zip and WinRAR. 7-max works only in Windows 2000/XP.WARNING: 7-max can be unstable for some systems and it can hang your Windows. So it's better to close other programs before first start of 7-max. If you have important data on your hard disk, it's better to backup them to some medium. And read FAQ for more information about possible troubles. If you are not ready to take risks, just don't install 7-max and don't use it.

XP Optimisation Project is intended to allow the user to edit Win XP reigstry in a very easy and fast way. XPOP loads all settings from a single xml file. These settings then can selectively be applied to the registry, or all at once.

Other functions:
-Uninstall MSN Messenger with one click
-Launch MSConfig
-Remove Windows Sounds with one click

Process Info is designed to give you information about processes that are currently running on your computer and help you distinguish between regular system process and other unwanted processes such as daemons, spyware, trojans and other viruses. The information is collected from several websites (Microsoft included). Once you determine the validity of a process you can mark it by right clicking it and selecting its status. This selection will be saved for future reference. When you suspect you are infected by a virus, or a new spyware component running, simply run Process Info again and see if there are any unmarked processes. No Install Required.

Learn more than 200 interesting facts about your computer. Details about your CPU, memory, operating system, even your computer's power source, are all displayed. You can also copy the information to the Windows clipboard, and paste it into a document for permanent storage.

SystemSherlock Lite is a free command line utility designed to analyse changes made to the registry and file system on your Windows workstation. SystemSherlock Lite saves an image of the registry and all your files and folders. Later on - for example after installing some software - you can analyse in detail what changes have been made to your system. You will find out exactly which registry entries and files that have been created, deleted or modified. Very useful to monitor program installations or to keep track of which files and registry keys are tampered with over time. Uninstalling trojans, spyware, viruses and keyloggers is an easy task when you know what modifications the software made to your computer. You can easily specify which parts of the file system and registry you want to monitor using the command line options and the powerful regular expressions feature. Read more in the online manual and FAQ.

ReSysInfo is a system information viewer for Windows. The tool has 25 total information modules: BIOS information, CMOS, desktop, DirectX, drives, environment, fonts, keyboard, locale, machine & APM, mainboard, MCI, memory, mouse, multimedia, network, OpenGL, passwords, ports, printers & fax, processes, processor, video system, general information about Windows and a summary. The tool supports most of the latest technologies: SMBIOS/DMI, AGP, PCI, PCI64/66, VESA, EISA, MCA, PCMCIA, CardBus support, full DirectX support (DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectSound, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectInput), OpenGL support and detection, processor detection for most processors currently available on the market. ReSysInfo has a Report Wizard which can export the information to 3 different formats: plain text, HTML and XML. The program doesn't need to be installed, but if you want to have icons in your start menu and on your desktop there is an installer available, too. While analyzing very many hardware and software components, the main program is extremely small (without additional language files). Only about 250 KB! You could copy ReSysInfo five times on a standard 1.44 MB disk.

MHDD is an utility for fast and informative low-level drive diagnostics. It performs fast (up to 20 Gb in 6 minutes) and accurate diagnostics of all the surface and heads of the HDD irrespective of the data located on it. MHDD is much more than just diagnostic. You can do anything with MHDD: diagnose your drive, access raw sectors, manage S.M.A.R.T. (SMART) and other drive parameters such as acoustic management, security, Host Protected Area. You can even send your own commands to a drive using very simple linear scripting engine. The program also allows to get rid of the "software" bad sectors with the highest possible speed. MHDD's major features also include: IDE registers monitoring, SMART monitoring, HDD stress-testing, and more!

System Speed Test 32 is a sysinfo / benchmark program. Designed for detection of hardware, checking a quality, states of working and benchmarks of the computer components. System Speed Test 32 can be used for checking efficiency to optimization, overclocking, checking CD disks and others. System Speed Test 32 allows you to detect following parameters: Type of the processor; Clock rate of processor; Clock rate of processor via Time Stamp Counter; Some information of processor stepping;Size and speed index of memory; Type, manufacturer, part number,some features of DIMM/RIMM memory modules; Display adapter, size of video memory, video memory speeds index and more... System Speed Test 32 is Freeware and provided As is without warranty of any kind. There is no guarantee that obtained results will be accurate.

DriverView utility displays the list of all device drivers currently loaded on your system. For each driver in the list, additional useful information is displayed: load address of the driver, description, version, product name, company that created the driver, and more. This utility is a standalone executable, so it doesn't require any installation process or additional DLLs. Just run the executable (driverview.exe) and start using it. There is only one exception: If you want to run this utility on Windows NT, you should download the 'psapi.dll', and copy it into the system32 folder.

DriverView 1.10:
Find dialog-box
New column: Created Date.
Added support for translating to other languages.
Added support for XP style.
Save to XML.
"Copy Selected Items" now copy the items as tab-delimited text.

This registry tweak utility provides an extensive range of tweaks for optimizing, enhancing and securing the Windows operating system. It's completely recoded in vb.net allot of new changes has being done since v0.1 o the original WinXPatch. You can easily select/deselect all of the items by clicking left mouse button. Then when you done selecting all the items you want just click patch button to do all the dirty work for you. This will save tremendous time for any administrator or power user as well as regular users.

XP Edit allows you to change various settings in Windows XP, including owner information, mouse and keyboard options, personal folder locations, taskbar options, boot screens and more.The program makes it easy to adjust these options without having to go through multiple Windows dialogs or even registry changes. A very useful program to tweak Windows XP just the way you like it. But use with caution.

Speed up Windows XP by optimizing file system / Cache and network settings.Optimizes the windows XP hidden settings so that your system runs at its peak performance. SpeedXP has about 20 system and Internet tweaks and also includes a tips section.

RadLinker is a unique tweaker/linker for ATI Radeon based graphics cards. It allows you easy access to per game settings.RadLinker allows you to create a "RadLink", a special kind of shell link (a.k.a. shortcut) to your games/programs that allows you to change it's individual settings. A RadLink will look and act just like a normal shortcut except it's property settings can be custom tailored for your video settings.

X-Setup Pro is a so-called "hacker" or "tweaker" program. It allows you to change settings that are normally hidden deeply in some configuration-files like the registry fast and easily. It offers several advantages, making it the "ultimate tool for black belt system tuning". It's runs on any Windows version, is clutter-free, easy to use, extensible, powerful, covers any aspect of your computer and has more configuration options than any other tweaker. The program supports plug-ins, security features and more.

Everest Home Edition (the successor of AIDA32) is a system information and benchmarking tool with complete hardware & software information. It comes with a built-in hardware database and physical information for CPU, motherboard, hard disks, optical drives, chipset and much more. The information can be displayed on-screen, printed, or saved as a report in HTML or text format. The built in diagnostics module can help you find potential problems, by higlighting them in the report and also includes links to manufacturers web sites, driver updates and more. An easy to use report wizard allows you to create detailed reports in the format of your choice.